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Servant regem misericordia; O Philippe, prelustris; Rex regum

Three-voice anonymous motet

Sources

Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 146, fol. 10v (3/3); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 571, fol. 144 (3/3); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 23190 (olim Serrant Château, ducs de la Trèmoìlle), fol. 21 ("O Philippe" possible cc., lost).

Facsimiles

1. WOLF, Johannes. Geschichte der Mensural-Notation von 1250-1460 nach den theoretischen und praktischen Quellen, 3 vols., Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1904. [reprinted Hildesheim: G. Olms, 1965], p. 13 (diplomatic).
2. Le Roman de Fauvel, manuscrit inèdit de la Bibliothèque Nationale (français 146) reproduit par un procèdè photographique inaltèrable, facsimile edition by Pierre Aubry, Paris: Librairie Paul Geuthner, 1907, (Fauv).
3. WILKINS, Nigel. Music in the Age of Chaucer, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979. Chaucer Studies I, p. 7.
4. ROESNER, Edward H. Le Roman de Fauvel in the edition of Mesire Chaillou de Pesstain, New York: Broude Brothers, 1990.

Editions

1. WOLF, Johannes. Geschichte der Mensural-Notation von 1250-1460 nach den theoretischen und praktischen Quellen, 3 vols., Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1904. [reprinted Hildesheim: G. Olms, 1965], Vol. III, p. 23.
2. The Roman de Fauvel; The Works of Philippe de Vitry; French Cycles of the Ordinarium Missae, edited by Leo Schrade, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1956. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century I, p. 29.

Literature

1. APEL, Willi. The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900-1600, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America, 1942, p. 330 briefly.
2. SCHRADE, Leo. 'Philippe de Vitry: some new discoveries', Musical Quarterly, XLII (1956): 330-354.

Recordings

1. Roman de Fauvel, Early Music Studio, directed by Thomas Binkley (1972): EMI-Reflexe 1C063-30-103 (GER).
2. Philippe de Vitry and the Ars Nova, Robert Hare-Jones (CT), Charles Daniels (T), Angus Smith (T), Donald Greig (Bar), Orlando Consort (1991): CD-SAR 49.